Honorific Prefix: | Lieutenant General |
Shamsur Rahman Kallue | |
Birth Date: | 1932 2, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Multan, British India |
Death Place: | Rawalpindi, Pakistan |
Order: | 9th |
Office: | Director General of the Inter-Services Intelligence |
Term Start: | 27 May 1989 |
Term End: | August 1990 |
Predecessor: | Hamid Gul |
Successor: | Asad Durrani |
Serviceyears: | 1951–1985 ; 1988–1990 (second stint) |
Rank: | Lt. Gen. |
Unit: | 5 Horse Armoured Corps |
Shamsur Rahman Kallue (Urdu: {{Nastaliq|شمس الرحمان کلو; 28 February 1932 – 19 December 1995) was the ninth Director General of the ISI and was in office from May 1989 – August 1990. He also served as a Lieutenant General in the Pakistan Army.[1]
Shams ur Rehman Kallue was the only surviving son of Brigadier Haji F. R. Kallue and Zubeda Begum (11 May 1910 - 5 March 1997) . His father Brigadier Fazal ur Rehman (F.R.) Kallue graduated from Royal Military College, Sandhurst in 1927. He was commissioned in 5th Battalion of 5th Marhatta Light Infantry (MLI). Later, he became the first Indian Commanding Officer (CO) of 5th Battalion of the 8th Punjab Regiment.
Shamsur Rehman attended Doon's School, Dhera Doon from where he completed his senior Cambridge. Later he received his education from Gordon College, Rawalpindi.[2] After that he joined 5th Pakistan Military Academy (PMA) long course and was commissioned in 1951 in 5 Probyn's Horse regiment.Kallue served as the ninth DG ISI after Hamid Gul.
The American intelligence agency CIA wanted him to meet Massoud to put forward U.S. interests in the region.Insight wrote (ibid):
Shamsur Rahman Kallue died on December 19, 1995, in Rawalpindi and is buried at the army cemetery in Westridge, Rawalpindi.He is one of a few officers who did not own any property. The plot that was given to him during his service was given to the needy soldiers. A loner and a lifelong bachelor, he rented half portion of a house, where he lived with his mother until his death in 1995. His mother, Zubeda Begum, also died two years later on 5 March, 1997 and was buried alongside her son in Army cemetery Westridge, Rawalpindi.